Would it somehow be possible to set up the SD card to hold everything without having to put up with adaptive storage? Having a card encrypted to work with just one device is way too limited. Is there anyone working on this?
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Everything on SD without adapting
- Thread starter Rgarner
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What do you mean by "hold everything"? If you mean "do everything that adopted storage can do without the hassle" then I'm afraid you are out of luck.
Your options basically are:
1) adoptive storage, with all the downsides as well as upsides.
2) leave it as external storage. You can store media on it, some apps will let you store data there (see in individual app's settings), and if your phone software still has the option you can partially move some apps to SD (provided the app developer chose to support that - by no means all do). Part of the app and the app's internal data will remain on internal storage.
3) root your device, create a second partition on the card (ext2/3/4 format), and with something like Link2SD and maybe a bit of hacking to enable init scripts you can use that partition to move more of the apps (but not for media storage, so you need to decide how much space to allocate to what). This is what we used to do when phones had very limited storage and adoptive storage didn't exist.
Those are the options. Sorry that none is what you want. My honest advice to anyone buying a phone is to ensure that you buy one with enough internal storage that you only need the SD card for media storage and not expect to use it for apps, but of course that doesn't help when you already have the phone.
Your options basically are:
1) adoptive storage, with all the downsides as well as upsides.
2) leave it as external storage. You can store media on it, some apps will let you store data there (see in individual app's settings), and if your phone software still has the option you can partially move some apps to SD (provided the app developer chose to support that - by no means all do). Part of the app and the app's internal data will remain on internal storage.
3) root your device, create a second partition on the card (ext2/3/4 format), and with something like Link2SD and maybe a bit of hacking to enable init scripts you can use that partition to move more of the apps (but not for media storage, so you need to decide how much space to allocate to what). This is what we used to do when phones had very limited storage and adoptive storage didn't exist.
Those are the options. Sorry that none is what you want. My honest advice to anyone buying a phone is to ensure that you buy one with enough internal storage that you only need the SD card for media storage and not expect to use it for apps, but of course that doesn't help when you already have the phone.
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